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A New York City teen was awarded a million-dollar settlement following the brutal police assault that left him with a pierced heart and punctured lung.
A rogue NYP sergeant hurled a handcuffed 14-year-old Javier Payne through a convenience store’s plate-glass window in 2014.
The Payne family sued the city, saying that Sgt. Eliezer Pabon used excessive force and also sued the store for negligence.
—MLK daughter Bernice King urges Waffle House boycott after video of Black man choked by cop surfaces—
Payne’s mother settled the civil lawsuit on Wednesday with the police department, reports the New York Daily News. And the city will pay $992,500, to the family,$2,500 to Pabon and $5,000 to the building owner for the broken window.
Payne is now 19 and still suffers from begin thrown through the glass window since shards of glass puncturing his lung and pieces that were embedded in his heart had to be removed.
“He said he is lucky to be alive and wants to move on with his life,” said Scott Rynecki, Payne’s attorney.
The incident started when the teen and his friend were arrested for punching a man who refused to give them a cigarette.
Payne was handcuffed by Pabon and started talking back before the officer pushed him through the glass window of the Hookah Spot, according to reports. Surveillance video confirmed the heated exchange that resulted in Payne receiving multiple injuries.
Pabon remained employed and received only a five-day dock in pay. Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton determined that Pabon did use excessive force.
Another shocking police assault
In North Carolina, a similar incident of police against a black man recently surfaced after an officer was seen violently slamming the man up against a glass window and choked him to the ground outside a Waffle House.
Bernice King is urging the public to boycott Waffle House after a disturbing video of the black man being choked and body slammed at the restaurant surfaced on Facebook.
The daughter of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. and CEO of The King Center posted the story about the North Carolina police officer choking and slamming Anthony Wall, a 22-year-old, unarmed black man at the restaurant on May 5 and suggested the public should stop patronizing the chain that has been the scene of several racist incidents in recent weeks.
Wall was reportedly at the restaurant after takings 16-year-old sister to her prom in Warsaw, North Carolina last weekend.